The best Zyte
alternatives.
When you'd rather not maintain a scraping stack. The tools that return production web data without the upkeep.
Five ways to get the real data.
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Zenrows
Live extraction from any URL, including protected and dynamic pages, with fetch, extract, and browser sessions as one toolkit. The page, the structured data, and the results, in real time.
Best for · production web data, end to end
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Scrapfly
A scraping API with anti-bot bypass, JavaScript rendering, and extraction.
Best for · a focused scraping API
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Bright Data
A large proxy network with scraping infrastructure, at enterprise scale.
Best for · massive proxy reach
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Apify
A marketplace of pre-built Actors for popular targets.
Best for · ready-made scrapers for known sites
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Diffbot
AI extraction that turns pages into structured entities and a knowledge graph.
Best for · entity extraction at scale
Switching from Zyte.
Zyte API takes a POST per page with a JSON body selecting browser rendering and extraction, priced by feature tier. The migration is the same page as one GET.
- One paramized GET per page
- Fixed, published credit weights
- Batch and browser sessions included
# before: Zyte API
curl -X POST "https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract" -u KEY: \
-d '{"url": "https://example.com", "browserHtml": true}'
# after: Zenrows
curl "https://api.zenrows.com/v1/?apikey=KEY\
&url=https://example.com&js_render=true"
How we ranked them.
Reach
Any URL including protected and dynamic pages, or only some targets.
Anti-bot
Bypass built in, or your problem to solve.
Output
Structured data and full pages, or raw HTML.
Scope
One primitive, or a full web-data toolkit.